Veterinary Surgeon - Small Animal Maternity Cover

Overview

Salary is up to £65,000 DOE plus £5,000 Relocation Allowance plus up to £5,000 signing bonus.

Veterinary Surgeon needed for award winning, fabulous practice in Biddulph, Staffordshire (on the Staffordshire/Cheshire border). Recent graduates and more experienced vets equally welcome.

With one of our lovely vets off on Maternity leave, we have the opportunity to look for another vet to complement our fabulous team. With many of our vets being very experienced, all levels of experience will be considered (although as we had a fabulous new graduate start with us in August, we want to ensure they are our training focus for the next few months).

We have 6 vets (4.5 FTE) with lots of varied interests and experience from 1 to 24 years. Our lead vet James is studying for his ophthalmology certificate, our lead nurse Lyndsey recently completed her feline nursing, and we also offer acupuncture as part of a pain management strategy.

We have great relationships with neighbouring practices, giving us great resources for information and second opinions. We have access to CT scanning at a very reasonable cost in 2 local practices and also utilise a local AVP in cardiology for those cases where a heart work up is needed but specialists are not necessarily the client’s preference for convenience or cost.

We have specialists in cardiology, orthopaedics and soft tissue surgery that we can call on to attend the practice if needed for more complex cases – wonderful when you want to actually see that more unusual procedure and keep continuity with your case!

We think you should be able to love the environment you work in - there aren’t many practices that look and feel like ours. Dedicated clinical office, 8 consulting rooms plus an end-of-life room, cat only waiting and ward (Cat friendly silver status), 2 full theatres plus dental theatre. The environment is planned to emphasise wellbeing of staff and patients – large airy reception, consulting, and operating rooms with natural light throughout.

The building is almost big enough to get lost in at first, but still feels cosy and inviting. Our extra-large meeting room is great for lunch and learns, practice meetings and of course practice parties.

We think you deserve to be proud of your practice - knowing we provide excellent care, great range and quality of equipment (including slit lamp, in-house biochemistry and haematology, tonopen, multiparameter monitors amongst many others), a knowledgeable team and all for a fair cost to our clients.

We are looking for a full or part time vet (19 - 40 hours per week over 2-5 days), on a permanent or maternity cover basis, and are happy to look at non-conventional work patterns to suit your needs, whatever they may be. Full days, half days, split shifts, shifts that start after the school run – just ask and we will see what we can do!

Let’s talk through what you CAN do and see if we can make it work.

We know most people don’t want to do OOH, night checks, Sundays, or bank holidays, so we don’t ask you to.

Saturdays are officially 1 in 5 (but we actually work 1 in 6 currently) alongside 2 receptionists, a RVN, and one other nursing team member (student nurse or RVN) and only 8am - 1pm. But if you love Saturdays or it suits you better – let us know!

We are in a unique position to be able to accommodate a consult only vet if that is your preference.

We focus on the client-patient bond and foster an environment of case continuity and trust from our clients in the vets and nurses that they meet. Clients can request their preferred vet for appointments and surgery so you can really follow cases through to resolution.

We have a nursing team who can focus on nursing exclusively thanks to our award-winning client care team. Our nurses do not have to get diverted to filling out insurance forms, so they can spend more time on patient care.

We value your skills and want to invest in you – if you have a special interest or skill, we will help you to develop it or allow you to utilise it – we have lots of space for you to expand our services. Equally if you always wanted to learn more about a subject, we can get…